I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa (City Lights Open Media)
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (747 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087286748X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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A vital counter-narrative to state violence and impunity, the stories also offer a testament of hope from people who continue to demand accountability and justice.John Gibler lives and writes in Mexico. Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities disappeared, killed, and injured scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime."In Mexico, John Gibler's book has been recognized as a journalistic masterpiece, an instant classic, and the most powerful indictment available of the devastating state crime committed against the 43 disappeared Ayotizinapa students in Iguala. The US 'war on drugs' has unleashed decades of unimaginable and hideous terrorism in Mexico, just as the 'war on terror' is doing in the Middle East. Here he weaves the stories of survivors, eyewitnesses, and the parents of the disappeared into a tour de force of journalism, a heartbreaking account of events that reads with the momentum of a novel. He is the author of Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt, To Die in Mexico: Dispatches From Inside the Drug War, 20 poemas para ser leídos en una balacera, Tzompaxtle: La fuga de un guerrillero. citizens to insist on ending the US war against t
He has collaborated with Democracy Now!, Z Magazine, Left Turn, Earth Island Journal, NACLA Report on the Americas, Salamander, Zyzzyva, California Sunday Magazine, Periodistas de a Pie, NPR's All Things Considered, and others.Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American author whose plays (among them, Death and the Maiden), have been performed in over one hundred countries and his numerous books (novels, stories, poems, essays) have been translated into more than sixty languages. Accompanied by his wife Angélica, Ariel divides his time between Chile and the United States, where he is professor emeritus of literature at Duke University. About the AuthorJohn Gibler lives and writes in Mexico. He is the author of Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Powe
Accompanied by his wife Angélica, Ariel divides his time between Chile and the United States, where he is professor emeritus of literature at Duke University. John Gibler lives and writes in Mexico. He is the author of Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt (City Lights, 2009), To Die in Mexico: Dispatches From Inside the Drug War (City Lights, 2011), 20 poemas para ser le&